Background

Ms. Jacqueline S. Martin, Jackie serves as the President of the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast. Ms. Martin leads an 80 year old organization that is driven by thousands of volunteers and a dual mission: to increase financial resources by conducting cost-effective, donor-oriented fundraising and to add value to United Way contributions through hundreds of funded programs and other activities that benefit the community. She uses the analogy of the United Way of the ... Texas Gulf Coast as a Community Investment Fund Manager: achieving the best returns on the investment donors and volunteers can make by listening to people, understanding their most pressing needs and then directing dollars to a portfolio of programs to solve them. She is a sixth generation Texan, born and raised in Austin. She considers her greatest achievement her adult son, Emile. Ms. Martin has devoted over 30 years to serving the community, professionally and personally, in human services. Prior to taking the helm of the United Way, she served as an Executive Director of the Houston area San Jacinto Girl Scout Council, the largest in the U.S. serving nearly 50,000 Girl Scouts in 21 Southeast Texas counties. She served as Vice President of Marketing and Community Services with Neighborhood Centers Inc. (NCI), a United Way agency; a Manager of Community Initiatives with the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast; and a Manager of aging services and coordinator, Health and Human Services with Houston-Galveston Area Council. Ms. Martin serves as a Director at Greater Houston Partnership. Ms. Martin serves on the Board of the American Leadership Forum. She serves as a Member of the Greater Houston Partnership Executive Committee and Board and Chairs the Partnership's Executive Women Partnership Committee. She also serves on the Board of Center for Houston's Future, the Houston Better Business Bureau, the Catholic Endowment Board and the Women's Advisory Board of Vinson & Elkins. She attended Tennessee State University and earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Sociology from Texas Southern University.

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